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• • Concerto Gate - Square Enix new MMORPG.

  • I gave up on Squenix a long time ago. Now all they produce is simple games that take 60+ hours to drag through a crappy storyline that might be interesting to a Japanese teenager.

    FFXI is a game where you beat up rabits and other cute little things so you can level up and beat up slightly different colored rabits. 6 people gathered around beating up a freaking rabbit. And then someone falls over and dies from it.

    It was funny in Monty Python, but not when you're stuck beating up the same kind of rabit for hours on end.

  • Posted: 10/10/08 6:26 PM
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• • two gifts?!

  • Stamina doesn't bug me either way, I doubt I'll play enough to use up 120 stamina in an entire day, so I don't see how the change is no big deal (and I do not subscribe to the "If I don't benefit you can't either" mentality and shout it down).

    The automove is nice. It's a theme park game and it just lets you enjoy the ride instead of having to wander through the zones and different rooms of dungeons and memorize where people are standing. Plus, I can set it to automove and than walk away, or do some chatting, or manage my inventory, or lots of other things.

  • Posted: 10/07/08 2:13 PM
    Atlantica Online
• • Why grind?

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    Originally posted by Wizardry
    We hear more and more about grind because ,i have said this already>>>>the new wave of gamers care nothing of the game content.They are only there to see how fast they can level up.So now you have a whole pile of gamers that just want instant end game levels for god knows what ever reason?
    IDK maybe they want to brag to there friends,or there in some PVP MMO where being a higher level means you need little skill and effort to do anything in combat.The other reason is that players do NOT want to work for anything,they want everything looked up on websites or some high level holding there hand through everything.It all spells immature and childish players.

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    What the heck are you talking about? I don't have a problem "earning" stuff, I have a problem because most games want mindnumbing repetition rather than any kind of actual skill involved. I play games to challenge myself, and once I master the starting skillset an MMO offers at low levels, I get bored. I like levels and progression and all of that, but they should supplement the game, not be the goal of the game.

    When it feels like a monkey could push the right buttons and get a level up, I'm not "earning" anything, I'm just wasting my time. That's why people want to skip ahead to the end game, because that's where most of the content is and features advertised on the box.

  • Posted: 10/04/08 2:23 PM
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• • Blizzard is awarded 6 million in "WoW Glider" Case

  • How come no one bothers to ask themselves...

    If the game is so simple that a bot can play it, why should a human waste their time doing it?

    Wow glider (and other bot programs) just remove the silly, tedious parts of the game that serve no purpose except to milk you of your subscription fee.

  • Posted: 10/04/08 2:12 PM
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• • Griefing and what it mean to you.

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    Originally posted by BlackWizards
    Even if the level 60 is camping the level 10, the level 10 can: Log, not res, hearthstone(wow), call in guildies for support, spawn elsewhere or  log his own level 60. If he keeps letting the 60 camp him, once again, he is imo at fault because there are so many out's available to him, and he rufuses to use them.
    

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    Wow, just wow. Okay, first of all, allowing the 10 and 60 to fight at all is, exactly as I said, bad game design. It might be fair if this were, say, Call of Duty 4 where a level 4 player versus a level 55 player, the level 4 still has an M16 with a grenade launcher versus the level 55's P90, but in most MMORPGs, that level 60 could take on a hundred level 10s and not break a sweat.

    Secondly, anything that revolves around _not_ letting the level 10 go about his business is ruining his fun. Logging, not ressing, and hearthstoning are not valid options. That's like saying, "Well, I slashed your tires, but that's fine, you can just not go to the store today, right?"

    Furthermore, not everyone has a guildie to babysit them _or_ a high level toon. Some people are just playing the game on their own, logging in for an hour or so to have their fun and be done and getting to level 60 might be the end of the game for me.

    This could just be solved by the game design of not allowing people of such great power difference to meet (or even exist) in the first place.

  • Posted: 9/28/08 3:27 AM
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